ARZone Podcast 61: Looking Back, Moving Forward

In this special Looking Back, Moving Forward podcast, ARZone presents the thoughts of 35 advocates and activists from around the world - looking back on 2012 and moving forward into 2013. We hope you’ll enjoy listening to these remarkable and dedicated people share their thoughts on past success and hope for the future. This diversity of voices shows that even though many of us favour different approaches, we are each committed to community and progress. Audio Podcast, approx 2 hours 27 minutes.

ARZone sincerely appreciates the participation of each of the advocates and activists who’ve contributed to this project. We are proud to be able to add our small contribution to the movement we share with these fine people as the work continues on behalf of other animals.

The participants in this project are (listed in order of appearance):

Tom Regan, who began teaching college in 1967, is the moral philosopher whose ground-breaking book “The Case for Animal Rights” (1983) is widely regarded as the definitive argument for a rights-based theory of animal ethics. Prof. Regan is on the web at http://www.animalsvoice.com/regan/.

Nick Cooney, Compassionate Communities Campaign manager for Farm Sanctuary and author of “Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change” (2010).

Jonathan Balcombe, ethologist, public speaker, Chair of the Animal Studies Department with the Humane Society University and author of numerous books including “Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good” (2007).

David Nibert, Professor of Sociology, author of “Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation” (2002).

Robin Lane, an advocate and activist for three decades, organiser since 1998 of the London Vegan Festival.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, the ‘Compassionate Cook’, public speaker, activist and author of many books including The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: The Ultimate Guide to Eating Cleaner, Getting Leaner, and Living Compassionately (2011).

Peter Singer, often called one of the world’s best known and most read philosophers, Prof. Singer is widely credited with rekindling the modern advocacy movement for other animals with the publication of his book “Animal Liberation” in 1975.

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Animal Rights Zone (ARZone) is an animal rights site. As such, it is the position of ARZone that it is only by ending completely the use of other animal as things can we fulfill our moral obligations to them.